Did anyone else feel like the magic behind what made the angels scary all but evaporated when we got to see them move on camera?
I found in "Blink" that the fact that you couldn't ever see them move is what made them such a perfect tool of fear. Seeing a statue change form and position after every blink of the eye, eventually turning into a monstrous form was what made them so good at scaring the crap out of me.
One thing about that episode is that the angels were still always frozen when the camera was on them even if no character was looking at them. This always made me think the writers intended that the audience were freezing the angels by observing them too.
So in "Flesh and Stone", the angels finally moved in response to Amy revealing her blindness(easily doable because they were always portrayed by actors in latex and not as studio props).
This completely dispelled the terror I felt about them. They can move now even if the audience can see them! To me, that's like king Xerxes being cut across the face by the spear of Leonidas, proving he really is mortal and can be defeated. In "Blink" they defeated the Doctor, hands down. He had to rely on the ingenuity of a character who could have easily failed. He only had the luck of knowing she succeeded anyway by having that transcript. If she'd failed, he would've been trapped in the past with no future knowledge of her encounter with the Angels, and would've had to get back to the Tardis by living through the 70s, 80s and 90s.
And wait, they're still made of stone even when they move?? I always imagined they were like pure energy when unseen and mobile, the way an electron is only a wave form until observed where it becomes a solid particle. "Quantum-locked" should MEAN something, dammit.
Does anyone else feel this way?
I found in "Blink" that the fact that you couldn't ever see them move is what made them such a perfect tool of fear. Seeing a statue change form and position after every blink of the eye, eventually turning into a monstrous form was what made them so good at scaring the crap out of me.
One thing about that episode is that the angels were still always frozen when the camera was on them even if no character was looking at them. This always made me think the writers intended that the audience were freezing the angels by observing them too.
So in "Flesh and Stone", the angels finally moved in response to Amy revealing her blindness(easily doable because they were always portrayed by actors in latex and not as studio props).
This completely dispelled the terror I felt about them. They can move now even if the audience can see them! To me, that's like king Xerxes being cut across the face by the spear of Leonidas, proving he really is mortal and can be defeated. In "Blink" they defeated the Doctor, hands down. He had to rely on the ingenuity of a character who could have easily failed. He only had the luck of knowing she succeeded anyway by having that transcript. If she'd failed, he would've been trapped in the past with no future knowledge of her encounter with the Angels, and would've had to get back to the Tardis by living through the 70s, 80s and 90s.
And wait, they're still made of stone even when they move?? I always imagined they were like pure energy when unseen and mobile, the way an electron is only a wave form until observed where it becomes a solid particle. "Quantum-locked" should MEAN something, dammit.
Does anyone else feel this way?
